MLK nephew told RW reporter he doesn't think Trump is "racist," just "racially ignorant"

[highplainsdem]

Tweets from a reporter with RW network OANN:

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NEW: Before the proclamation signing President Trump told the nephew of MLK Jr., "I'm not what I'm being portrayed in the media."

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In our interview, Issac Newton Farris Jr., the nephew of MLK Jr. says, "I personally don't think that President Trump is a racist in traditional sense. I think that President Trump is racially uninformed or racially ignorant."

Trump IS a racist.

Farris is ignorant of Trump's long history of racist statements and actions.

And his uncle would be ashamed of Farris's participation in Trump's sham ceremony today.

[ollie10]

1. Trump's dad rallied with KKK....

....What a role model growing up.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Isaac simply doesnt know his history, he is openly racist, has been forever.

Has been sued by the govt for being a racist.

[unblock]

3. he's not racially uninformed or ignorant. he's well aware. it's all about race for him.

he's a white supremacist. his entire agenda is based on race.


it's not like he's simply trying to make america a better place and it just so happens that he's not paying attention to race and in the process he's doing or saying something that hurts some groups of people in unintended way.

not at all.

pretty much every aspect of his entire agenda is motivated by race. putting whites on top, putting others down.
undoing the works of a black man, building a wall to keep brown people out.


at this point calling him a "racist" is letting him off easy. he's way worse than your average racist.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Hard to believe he would make these statements.

I just can't understand it.

[Maeve]

5. How did he get to be 70+ in America, in NY City, even,

particularly living thru the 1960's and '70's and still end up that "racially uninformed"? He didn't. He chose to be a racist fool, an ignorant, racist jerk.

[spanone]

6. Horseshit.

[Solly Mack]

7. Who needs yoga when you can stretch and contort like that?

[louis-t]

8. He's ignorant, racially and otherwise.

This is making my head hurt today.